PRAYING THE VISION PRAYER

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• PRAYING THE VISION PRAYER
• O God, with all our hearts we long to be
• A movement of churches,
• Transformed by Christ,
• Transforming Canada and the world.

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• By Your grace and for Your glory, renew us and
  empower us through a fresh encounter with
  Yourself
• Release us to be strategic in service,
  Kingdom-connected in practice and passionate in
  pursuit of Your mission and mercy.
• Use us to fulfill Your purpose for Canada and the
  world.

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• WITH ALL OUR HEARTS
• Seek out 4-5 others. Pray the Lord to Unite my
  heart to fear Your name Ps. 8611b
• Confess any reserve to pray this prayer
  wholeheartedly.
• Acknowledge that to pray this prayer is to commit
  to it, to sacrifice toward its completion and to
  engage with other churches to accomplish it.
• Request that half-hearted devotion be replaced
  with a growing yearning that God have His way
  among us as a movement of churches.

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• A MOVEMENT OF CHURCHES
• Repent of any attitude or behavior that stops
  churches from looking beyond themselves. Start
  with yourself.
• Name whatever ingrown thinking needs to leave
  your own congregation and renounce it.
• Pray for your congregation to develop new
  wineskins for new winenew strategies, new
  forms, and new approaches to reach a changing
  society with the gospel.
• Ask God for fresh strategies to partner with the
  Alliance church(es) nearest you to touch your
  community.
• Ask the Lord for partnerships with other churches
  (name them specifically) and commit to working
  with them.

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• TRANSFORMED BY CHRISTYou will receive power
  when the Holy Spirit comes upon you
• Ask that our movement be transformed by the
  renewing of our mind. Begin with yourself.
• Pray for the CMA to be open to, and utterly
  committed to the life-changing, the radical and
  the new, even as we stand in our heritage.
• Pray for personal transformationname an area
  that needs to be changed in your own life.
• Pray for congregational transformationname an
  area that needs to be changed in your church.

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• CANADA AND THE WORLDJerusalem, Judea, Samaria,
  the ends of the earth
• Pray for our nationthat Godly agendas be
  required through minority rule.
• Pray for a missionary you know by name in a
  cross-cultural situation. Ask God to provide
  inspiration. Ask God if you are to be a provider.
• Pray for an utterly unreached people groupthose
  under the domination of Islam, closed Hindu and
  Buddhist nations, etc.

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• A FRESH ENCOUNTER
• Pray for each other that Jesus will grant a fresh
  baptism in the Holy Spirit resulting in
  holiness, power for service and new release of
  spiritual gifts not known before.
• Pray for our leaderslocal pastors, district
  superintendents, the president and
  vice-presidents by namethat the Spirit of the
  Lord will revisit their lives in remarkable new
  ways.
• Pray for General Assemblythat we corporately
  would receive a fresh infilling of the Lords
  Spirit as He leads us to transform others.

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• STRATEGIC IN SERVICE
• Get up and go to a street called straight Acts
  911
• Pray for our national, district and local leaders
  to do the things that succeed and to drop the
  things that are no longer relevant.
• In your own church, name what needs to be dropped
  and what needs to be developed/occur to reach
  your area.
• Pray for our General Assembly, that we would do
  the same.

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• KINGDOM-CONNECTED
• Preach the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal
  the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers,
  cast out demons
• Matt 107-8
• Pray that our churches put first the kingdom of
  God and His righteousnessthat budgets,
  decisions, staffingall reflect kingdom values.
• Pray that the powers of darkness be embarrassed,
  as the kingdom of Satan is expelled through our
  obedience.
• Pray that healings, deeper life, deliverance from
  demonic influences occur as we plant churches,
  learning institutions and send workers around the
  world.

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• PASSIONATE IN PURSUIT
• I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly
  vision
• Acts 2619
• Pray that God would come to our aid in three ways
  (name people in each category)
• a) to raise up fresh energy among the
  discouraged, the grieving, and the wounded
• b) to rekindle the fire of the weary,
  and
• c) to embrace the determination of the
  impassioned.

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• PRAYING THE VISION PRAYER
• O God, with all our hearts we long to be
• A movement of churches,
• Transformed by Christ,
• Transforming Canada and the
  world.

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• By Your grace and for Your glory, renew us and
  empower us through a fresh encounter with
  Yourself
• Release us to be strategic in service,
  Kingdom-connected in practice and passionate in
  pursuit of Your mission and mercy.
• Use us to fulfill Your purpose for Canada and the
  world.